ST. PETER, MINNESOTA — Senior
Nick Scott (senior, Fort Benton, Mont., Great Falls Central Catholic HS gave the Central College men's tennis team its second individual win at the ITA Division III Midwest Regional in the last 10 years Friday.
The regional meet, hosted by Gustavus Adolphus College (Minn.) has a main singles and main doubles draw with two additional singles and one additional doubles draw. Scott earned the program's second singles win in the top flight since Coach
Ryun Ferrell's arrival in 2015. He defeated Ryan Fonseca of the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire 7-5, 6-4 in his opening match. Scott would lost 6-3, 6-1 to Lucas Willett of Grinnell College in his second match.
AJ Wilkins (junior, Grinnell) lost his only top-flight singles match 6-0, 6-1 against Cyriac Cayuela of Carthage College (Wis.) 6-0, 6-1.
In the B-Flight of singles,
Ayden Fletcher (junior, Waukee) lost 4-2, 4-2 to Aniketh Vipparia of Carleton College (Minn.).
Ernest Alvarez Chedzoy (freshman, Kerrville, Texas, Kivy HS) lost 4-1, 4-0 to Jasper Yang of Carleton.
Alex Slaymaker (freshman, Geneseo, Ill.) went 2-0 in the C-Flight of singles defeating Eli Henderson of the University of Northwesteren – St. Paul (Minn.) 4-0, 4-0 in the first round. He also beat Alex Laho of Concordia College-Moorhead (Minn.) 4-2, 4-2.
Travis Subbert (freshman, McKinney, Texas, North HS) won his opening match 4-1, 5-4 over Ethan Ahrar of Bethel University (Minn.) He was eliminated by Cathal Mee of St. Olaf College (Minn.) 4-1, 2-4, 10-5.
All three of Central's doubles team played in the top-flight of doubles. Subbert and Scott advanced to the second round of the bracket after a withdrawal. Wilkins and Alvarez Chedzoy lost 8-6 to a team from the Milwaukee School of Engineering (Wis.). Fletcher and Slaymaker lost to a Grinnell team 8-3.
In addition to consolation matches for the six players at the regional meet, a different group of Central players will host the University of St. Mary (Kan.) in a 2 p.m. dual at the Pella High School courts.
